The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-11
THE ExILED FRENCHMAN.
Max O'Ren Discusses His Countrymer
Away from France.
F1onl the Ltvelpool Co1wier

From the liverpool Courier.
A Frenchman out of France is very much
like a fish out of water
OF all the European people the French
are those who emigrate the least. Their
country is large and rich enough to feed
them and give them employment, the family
ties are very close, the ambition for
great wealth seldom exists, and they prefer
living on a snug little income in France to
acquiring large fortune abroad. Not one
boy is brought up with a view to being sent
abroad when he isgrown up. Most French
men whom you meet settled out of France
are men whose career was blighted by the
political events of the last thirty or forty
years.
Once domiciled in a foreign land, how
ever, the Frenchman soon forms with other
exiled compatriots clubs and societies where
their characteristics come out in full light !;
gaiety and goodfellowship reign, but tenn
pered, if one may say so, by the little ma
tional failings, jealousy and yearning after
elective titles. These societies, we see, are
subdivided into sections, committees, com
missions, etc, each having a president, a
vice president, a treasurer, a Secrct1irc-
TdppOrteuT, ecTetdire-drchiriste, and
what not. For that matter you will never
see half dozen Frenchmen meet round the
table for the discussion of ANYTHING but a
good dinner without appointing one Of their
number president, another vice president
etc Each one must have a title and if
there are six members and only five titles to
be dispensed, the one who is left out sends
in his resignation and goes about abusing
the other five. It seems up to now as if the
republic had failed to make the French peo-
pie real republicans.
Frenchmen when in exile do not allow
either pride of birth, education or former
position to he an obstacle in the way of
earning living, if only humble oppOrtuni-
ties present themselves Once / was shown
an aristocratic-looking countryman of mine
in fashionable restaurant in London, wash
ing glasses. This pluckY Frenchman had
taken to glass washing, for which he earned
a shilling night and his dinner, an attend
ant something more suited to his acquire
ment and requirements Like many Others
he mad fled his country because he had held
post under the Commune. and was
wanted" by NJ. Theirs. If he had the ira
ditional half crown in his pocket by the
time he reached England 1t was as much as
he could boast in hard cash, and so he
bravely accepted the work | saw him at. I
was not surprised to learn some time ago
that he is now manager and partner of one
of the large French houses of business es-
tabIished for the sale of French manufac-
tured goods in England.
If you go to a certain cafe in Regent street,
London, between II and !, you may almost
every day see, seated at one of the tables, a
tall, thin, gentlemanly Frenchman of about
30. This is no less parsonage than the first
cook in London. 1t is said that he makes
an income of over $1,000, $4,000 year.
This is how he earns his living. In his own
brougham he sets out toward evening for
the house of some rich man who is going to
give dinner at which every dish must be
above criticism. Here he alights. and
makes for the kitchen, goes through the
process of tasting all the soups, sauces and
made dishes, advising, when his palate sug-
gests, little more salt here, pinch of
herbs there, a dash Of sugar in this ehtree,
a suspicion of onion in that sdiDliS, etc.
This done he pockets his fee of two guineas,
and drives TO the next dinner-giving patron
who has hidden him to his feast in this
strange fashion. His nightly list comprises
many houses all through the London season.